This information is useful to ensure your development environment is compatible with the deployment process and the Azure resources.

What should I know before using DXP?

See Microsoft Azure to gain knowledge of cloud-based development, particularly Microsoft Azure, which is valuable for getting the most out of DXP.
Ensure that you use compatible versions of software, services, and tools for a smooth deployment procedure.
Create an Optimizely cloud account to access the self-service capabilities for DXP and information about your projects in the Azure portal.
Check the system requirements before installing. Easy installation and service onboarding, sample templates, and Visual Studio extensions help you get your development projects up and running. With Optimizely's continuous releases, see Optimizely Release Notes by Product to keep projects up-to-date with a shorter time-to-market for customer solutions.

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You can run only one Web Application (ASP.NET Web Application project) in your DXP solution. However, you can have unlimited number of sites in that application.

To ensure maximum availability and scaling flexibility, Optimizely Search & Navigation (formerly Find) uses dynamic IP ranges. For example, if you require approval lists for IP addresses in the firewall, make sure that your firewall supports domain-based approval lists.

Required software versions

The following overview shows the minimum required versions for Optimizely products and modules, and tools and services for deploying to the integration environment. See Install Optimizely (Asp.NET Core) (CMS 12), Why upgrade to CMS 12?, or Install Optimizely updates (CMS 11 and Commerce Connect 13) for information about upgrading Optimizely solutions.

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Although you should run CMS 12, you can still use CMS 11. For information about why you should run CMS 12, see Why upgrade to CMS 12?.

Software or service	Lowest version	Comment
Optimizely CMS	`EPiServer.CMS.UI.Core` 12.0.2, `EPiServer.CMS.Core` 12.0.3	*
Optimizely Search & Navigation	`EPiServer.Find` 14.0.1	*
Optimizely Commerce Connect	`EPiServer.Commerce` 1.1.1",	*
Optimizely Cloud CMS	`EPiServer.CloudPlatform.Cms` 1.0.1	Required for cms projects
Optimizely Cloud Commerce Connect	`EPiServer.CloudPlatform.Commerce` 1.0.1	Required for commerce projects
Optimizely Marketing Automation	`EPiServer.ConnectForMarketingAutomation` 6.0.0	Optional package
Microsoft Visual Studio or Microsoft VS Code	2019	For creating and deploying sites
Microsoft SQL Database	16	For creating bacpac files for database transfers
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio	16.x (2022)	For creating bacpac files for database transfers

The following features are not supported within Optimizely DXP:

Optimizely Mirroring
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Optimizely Search (default search; uninstall the NuGet package to remove from your solution before deployment. Optimizely Search & Navigation is included.)
Solr Search Provider (use Optimizely Search & Navigation)

Deployment tools

You can deploy using deployment tools for a version-controlled team development environment or through Visual Studio using the Optimizely extensions and publish profiles. You can use any deployment tool that supports Azure Resource Manager (ARM); see Deploy DXP.

Supported apps (add-ons)

Unsupported add-ons

The following add-ons are not supported in Optimizely DXP.

Optimizely CMO
Optimizely Mail
Optimizely Relate
Optimizely Search